Civil-military relations have received extensive scholarly attention, especially during the 1960s-1980s period when coups d'état were very common in West Africa, in particular, and Africa, in general. Since the beginning of what Samuel Huntington described as the "Third Wave of Democratization" in the 1990s, there has been a relative decline in militarism in polit...

Civil-military relations have received extensive scholarly attention, especially during the 1960s-1980s period when coups d'état were very common in West Africa, in particular, and Africa, in general. Since the beginning of what Samuel Huntington described as the "Third Wave of Democratization" in the 1990s, there has been a relative decline in militarism in polit...